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Yellow River By CAO DESHENG COVID19 pandemic and said Chi new fields to boost development World Health Organization and and MO JINGXI na supports enterprises from both and inject momentum into the jointly safeguarding the lives and countries in developing coopera regional and the world economies. health of people of all countries. China stands ready to work with tion in vaccine research and Widodo thanked China for its Stating that China encouraged its Indonesia to uphold the interna development, purchasing and support in fighting COVID19, and capable companies to invest in tional system with the United production, and jointly contribut said Indonesia stands ready to Morocco, Xi said that China is will plays role in Nations at its core, advance the ing to making the vaccine accessi work with China to uphold the ing to steadily advance cooperation improvement of global govern ble and affordable. basic norms of the international with Morocco in promoting coopera ance, safeguard international fair Xi told Widodo that China will system and peace and stability in tion in various areas including the ness and justice and promote the continue to deepen reform and the region, and to advance the Belt and Road Initiative and the building of a community with a comprehensively expand highlev building of the community with a Forum on ChinaAfrica Cooperation. shared future for mankind, Presi el openingup as well as advance shared future for mankind. King Mohammed VI said his ‘rejuvenation’ dent Xi Jinping said on Monday. the new development pattern with In his conversation with King country will consider China as a Xi made the remark in a tele domestic and international mar Mohammed VI, Xi said that China priority for cooperation and that he phone conversation with Indone kets complementing each other so is willing to actively push forward hopes that the two nations will Key Party meeting stresses conservation, sian President Joko Widodo. Also as to provide more extensive mar cooperation on vaccine research deepen cooperation in such areas development of water resources crucial on Monday evening, Xi spoke by ket opportunities for other coun and development as well as pro as trade and the economy as well as telephone with Morocco’s King tries. duction with the African country. science and technology so as to Mohammed VI. China stands ready to advance He called on the two countries to enrich the vigor of bilateral ties. By MO JINGXI effective measures should be adopt While speaking with Widodo, Belt and Road cooperation with join hands with other nations in [email protected] ed to accelerate the transformation Xi mentioned the two countries’ Indonesia, he said, calling on the upholding multilateralism, sup Contact the writers at of driving forces, to establish the consistent efforts to fight the two countries to work together in porting the leading role of the [email protected] A key Party meeting on Monday modern industrial system with dis stressed the need to promote the tinctive local features and advanta intensive and economical utilization ges and to advance rural vitalization. People power of the water resources of the Yellow The meeting also stressed the need Xi calls for River to ensure its highquality devel to protect and carry forward Yellow opment. River culture and explore its value in The meeting of the Political modern times to strengthen Chinese preservation Bureau of the Communist Party of people’s confidence in Chinese cul China Central Committee, presided ture. over by Xi Jinping, general secretary The 5,464kilometerlong river of reservoir of the CPC Central Committee, feeds about 12 percent of China’s reviewed a guideline on develop population, irrigates about 15 per By CAO DESHENG ment planning for the Yellow River cent of arable land, supports 14 per basin. cent of national GDP and supplies President Xi Jinping has called for The ecological protection and water to more than 60 cities. continuous efforts to preserve highquality development of the Yel The Yellow River basin has a drain Miyun Reservoir, the major reserve low River, known as China’s Mother age area of over 752,000 sq km and of drinking water for Beijing, and River, “concern the great rejuvena covers seven provinces and two urged officials to fully advance the tion of the Chinese nation”, read a autonomous regions. building of an ecological civilization. statement released after the meeting. Since Xi became general secretary Xi, who is also general secretary Efforts should be made to improve of the CPC Central Committee, he of the Communist Party of China its environment, optimize the alloca has made many visits to inspect the Central Committee, made the tion of water resources, facilitate environmental conservation and remarks in his reply on Sunday to a highquality development of the highquality development of the Yel letter from people who participated whole basin, improve people’s lives low River basin, with the most recent in the construction and protection and promote the inheritance of Yel in June, when he inspected the Ning of Miyun Reservoir in the northeast low River culture, it said. xia Hui autonomous region. suburbs of Beijing. The reservoir “It is important to respect natural Monday’s meeting also reviewed a was completed in 1960 after two laws and taking targeted measures report on the latest round of disci years of construction. according to local circumstances to plinary inspections by the 19th CPC Firstgraders display the Chinese character for ren, or people, during a ceremony on Monday to Xi praised the people who partici improve the environment in the Yel Central Committee. mark the start of the new semester at the Confucius Temple, in Nanjing, Jiangsu province. The cer pated in the construction at the call low River basin,” the statement read. It said that results of the inspec emony was held to teach students about traditional Chinese culture. SU YANG / FOR CHINA DAILY of the CPC Central Committee, as It mandated efforts to reduce tions showed that central Party and well as those who have joined in pre floods and droughts along the Yellow government organs should be more serving the reservoir over the past River for the long run and to improve consciously implementing various six decades, for their important con the country’s capabilities in dealing kinds of decisions and arrange tributions to improving the environ with various kinds of natural disas ments of the CPC Central Commit Rule to handle foreign firms’ complaints ment in the capital city. ters by strengthening scientific tee on comprehensively deepening He underlined the importance of research. reform, thus pushing forward the environmental protection for the ben To boost the highquality develop country’s modernization of its gov By ZHONG NAN updating and optimizing of its ment Administration. efit of future generations. He said the ment of the Yellow River basin, meet ernance system and governance [email protected] system for handling foreign com He said the rule has broadened reservoir was built for flood control, ing participants decided that capabilities. panies’ complaints. the scope of complaints that can but it has become an invaluable asset China will implement a new The regulation is meant to be made by foreign companies. It given its pivotal role as a strategic rule for handling the complaints implement article 26 of China’s has clarified that global compa reserve of drinking water for Beijing. of foreigninvested enterprises Foreign Investment Law, which nies can apply to agencies that Xi expressed hope that those Wang: World realizes US on Oct 1, as part of its efforts to provides that the State establish handle complaints for coordina involved in preserving the reservoir build a marketoriented and law es working mechanisms for com tion and settlement of their legal will continue to do their job well and based international business plaints by foreigninvested rights and interests that may be make new contributions to the on ‘wrong side of history’ environment, the Ministry of companies, promptly handles the infringed by administrative building of a beautiful Beijing. Commerce said on Monday. issues raised by them or their actions. The companies also can Party committees and govern The rule consists of five chap investors and coordinates and report to the government units ments at various levels should fully By MO JINGXI ple have the right to live a happy life ters and 33 articles, further refin improves policy measures in that they are having problems in implement the philosophy of eco since all countries are equal mem ing the requirements of the question, said Zong Changqing, running their business. logical civilization and consider the The differences or conflicts bers of international society. Foreign Investment Law and its directorgeneral of the ministry’s practice of the philosophy as a stra between China and the United As a global power, the US should implementing regulations and Department of Foreign Invest See Firms, page 3 tegic task, Xi said. States are not about power, posi be inclusive toward the develop tion or social systems, but about ment of other countries and realize upholding multilateralism or uni that people in other countries, just Words for the ages lateralism, promoting winwin like those in the US, have the right to HEROIC WARTIME SIEGE cooperation or a zerosum game, live a good life, he said, adding that a State Councilor and Foreign Minis new Cold War is no longer possible ter Wang Yi told an audience in Par given that all countries have become IN SHANGHAI RELIVED is on Monday during his European a community with their interests ◆ tour. intertwined in the age of globaliza “(I) believe that all countries in the tion. Blockbuster movie features epic warehouse battle world are already aware that the US Wang called on the European is now standing on the wrong side of Union to join hands in resisting any By ZHANG KUN in Shanghai history,” Wang said, adding that it backwardlooking current that [email protected] seems that current US diplomacy is incites hatred and confrontation, only about unilateral sanctions and saying that China and the EU hang Haojie and his girl attacks that smear China. should provide more stability for friend visited a landmark He made the remarks when asked the everchanging and complex site in downtown Shanghai about how to avoid a new Cold War world by standing on the right side on Aug 25. museum, located on the north bank between China and the US after of history. ZStanding by the gate to the Sihang of Suzhou Creek, Zhang was drawn to delivering a speech at the French The state councilor also said that Warehouse Memorial Hall, the site of the site by the war movie The Eight Institute for International Rela the door of dialogue with Washing a vital battle in the War of Resistance Hundred, which he had just watched. tions. ton is always open and Beijing wel Against Japanese Aggression (1931 Ma Youjiong, head of the memori “China always proposes and comes European countries, 45), Zhang told his partner, “I guess I al hall, said the film has attracted believes that the world will finally including France, to play a con would have acted the same as the large numbers of new visitors to the become a multipolar one and structive role in easing the tensions troops back then if I’d been in their museum. “We used to have no more democracy should be practiced in between China and the US. Invited guests view works of the 11thcentury master poet and cal situation. than 500 visitors a day, but now we international relations,” Wang said, “We are willing to carry out ligrapher Su Shi at the Palace Museum in Beijing on Monday. The “After all, it is a matter of life and are receiving about five times that adding that a healthy and stable indepth and candid exchanges with exhibition opens to the public on Tuesday. JIANG DONG / CHINA DAILY death in battle, and you don’t have a number,” Ma said. world should not only have one or the US side on issues of common See story, page 3 choice.” “To contain the COVID19 pan two powers that have the final say concern at any time,” Wang said. The paint on the museum’s western demic, we introduced an online res on world affairs. wall has been removed, exposing red ervation system, and are limiting the While China congratulated the See History, page 3 © 2020 China Daily ,All Rights Reserved , Vol.24 — No. 7277 bricks beneath. Holes in the upper sec number of visitors to 2,500 a day.” US as a country that realized devel tion of the wall, both large and small, Visitors to the hall have to make opment at a very early stage, Wang Inside are evidence of the fierce gunfire from reservations a few days in advance. said that China also has the right to A member of the Japanese troops as they attacked. development and the Chinese peo Editorial, page 9 Asia News Network Like many other visitors to the See Site, page 2